Question

I need to store some date in my SQL database, the problem is that the default storage is

YYYY-MM-DD

And I need

DD-MM-YYYY

My only solution was to store date as Varchars (10) and it’s working pretty well, but now I can’t order my queries by DATE, and I need to order them from the oldest to the newest…

Answer 1

There is no way to change the default date format for a MySQL date or either of its variants – DATETIME, TIMESTAMP and DATE.

Quoting the manual:

Although MySQL tries to interpret values in several formats, dates always must be given 
 in year-month-day order (for example, '98-09-04'), rather than in the month-day-year or 
day-month-year orders commonly used elsewhere 
(for example, '09-04-98', '04-09-98').

Consider the native DATE_FORMAT() function as rightly suggested by @Micheal in his post.